Fri Jul 10, 5.37am ET
DAKAR (AFP) – A four tonne sperm whale and eight dolphins have
been washed up on Senegal beaches over the past month,
the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Friday.
The mammals were washed up a year after the mystery over 100
whales that were beached north of the Senegal capital
Dakar. Forty-eight were rescued and put back to
sea.
The dead sperm whale washed up on the beach at Ngasobil, in the
Mbour region on Wednesday, WWF official Mamadou
Diallo told AFP. It was probably killed in a collision with
a boat, he added.
The eight dolphins washed up on a beach at Tivaouane Peulh,
north of Dakar. The WWF believes they were killed by a red seaweed
which has spread "at an extraordinary rate" on the coast, Diallo
said.
"The seaweed contains a toxin that is deadly for fish and
dolphins," he said.
That's sad. I feel the situation shld improve with conservation
efforts and basic envrionmental education to the public.
